FORA.tv Speaker - Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild (born 1942) is an American writer. Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa, a politically pivotal experience he later wrote about. He subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964, was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones. Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Hochschild lives in San Francisco and has taught writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to Arlie Hochschild, the famous sociologist.